Chicken is a prize around here because we don't often butcher our laying hens, but every now and then we raise a flock of meat birds. Hybrid Cornish Cross meat chickens are butchered at 6-8 weeks...
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I live on one acre and we grow most all our own food. This year, we're expanding our animal production. The best animals to raise on a 1-acre lot are rabbits. They are the most economical, the...
Rabbits are the simplest animals we've raised for meat. Done right, it can be cheap and effective. Meat rabbits cost between $4.62 and $6.75 each in feed costs when fed commercial rabbit feed....
I've raised rabbits on grass alone. It worked, but it wasn't what I had hoped. A rabbit can be raised on just grass, but it's not an optimal diet for early growth. Grass-fed rabbits tend to be...
In the last 5 years, I have butchered more rabbits than I can count. We fill half a freezer every year. Commercial meat rabbits produce a 2.5-pound carcass, but home-raised rabbits can vary from 1...
I love rabbits. They are one of the most self-sufficient capable meat animals. We feed our rabbits on both wild and garden-grown fodder. It does pretty well. Alfalfa, mangel beet, corn,...